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Case Updates

By K.C. Johnson

A few updates in the civil suit. First, and most significant, an out-of-court settlement was reached in the Pottawatamie case, a civil suit that resulted from massive prosecutorial conduct, and about which I had blogged previously. As Radley Balko has argued, the Pottawattamie side of the case contended ?that prosecutorial immunity gives government officials the right to coerce witnesses to lie, withhold evidence pointing to a suspect's innocence, and work with police to manufacture false evidence of guilt, then use that evidence to win false convictions that send two men to prison for 25 years.? The two falsely imprisoned men received $12 million; the Iowa county didn?t admit wrongdoing, but the willingness to settle represented a reasonable reading of the Supreme Court tea leaves...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on January 09, 2010 (boomark / email).